Three UC San Diego professors named recipients of 2018 Breakthrough Prize

(University of California - San Diego) Two full-time University of California San Diego faculty members -- Don Cleveland, who studies fundamental cellular mechanisms in the search for new treatments for diseases like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and James McKernan, a mathematician who investigates algebraic geometry and multivariate polynomials -- are recipients of the 2018 Breakthrough Prize, along with Joanne Chory, a plant biologist at Salk Institute for Biological Studies and adjunct...